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March 31, 2014
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April 1st Holy Spirit
Novena |
The Novena Rosary
Mysteries |
Given March 16, 2014
Mary: I stood beneath the cross of my Son, Jesus.
Today there is so much confusion in the world. Families
that pray the Shepherds of Christ Prayers as a family and
pray the rosary can receive very special blessings and
healing graces, Jesus promised.
Use the Fatima statues with the glass as
a special remembrance of my presence,
as your Heavenly Mother, with you.
You should pray for healing of your family tree as
Jesus told you during the March Florida and China
retreats.
You should pray for children and grandchildren
and future children in the family.
I want you to have a piece of the glass which
came from my image face and a statue of
Our Lady of Fatima in every home.
Give these statues to your family and friends.
When you pray the rosaries in the Blue Books
and the prayers, Jesus promises special graces
of healing for you and your family
and for your needs.
We have given Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus
and Mary from when Jesus and I appeared delivering
these rosaries. Pray them by candle-light and
we will be there with you in a special
way as you pray the Rosaries from the
Hearts of Jesus and Mary given in the Blue Books.
Pray for each other, pray for those you
are troubled about. Live in love.
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Given March 21, 2014
R. Pray for These Things
1) Pray for the priests, the Church and the world!
2) Pray for the spread of prayer chapters,
also for the spread of priests doing prayer chapters.
3) Pray for the spread of Blue Books.
4) People going to Florida and China.
5) Vocations to all 7 categories.
6) Pray for spread of Consecration and Rosary.
7) Pray for pope helping us.
8) Blue Book 13 cover; Blue Book 12, Blue Book 13 - all involved.
9) All intentions on my list, Jerry's list.
10) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
11) Donors and members and their families.
12) Healing of the Family tree.
13) Dan & Melanie, Catherine & mom, Gary, Mary Jo,
Jim, Fr. Ken, Monsignor, Tom's wife, Kerry.
14) All who asked us to pray for them.
15) All we promised to pray for.
16) Rita, John, Doris, Sheila, Jerry, Regina, Sanja,
Betty, Sophie, Rosie, Lisa, Eileen, Fr. Mike, Jeff,
Louie, 2 Dons, Mary Ellen, Fr. Joe, all priests helping us.
17) 2 babies and moms.
18) Funds and insurance.
19) Special intentions.
20) Jerry's garage.
21) Spread the Blood of Jesus on all of us here.
22) Consecrate all hearts.
23) Cast the devil out of all of us here and all in Movement.
March 31, 2014
Jesus: Since the garden satan has attacked
men through them seeking independence.
In the world today some men have sought
independence from God.
R. So how can such division and disharmony
in
relationships work in today's world?
The very structure of such division
is opposed to unity, harmony, structure which is
God's will.
God wants us to be
like brothers caring for
each other.
Satan has worked in the people to chose
their ways by whether or not
they remain independent of each other –
and this is how they make decisions –
to stay separated, disconnected,
disharmonious and in control –
not observing structure or
obeying authority and
trying to prove the wrong
they do as right –
lying to do it if they have to.
INDEPENDENCE
Everyone
sees disunity – you
wear it like clothes.
God works in structure –
We see Eve wanted her own will
to be equal to God.
Independence from authority
(just authority) brings shrinking –
people see this – Jesus says you
wear disunity like clothes –
Sheila looked at the Bishops in the United
States, the Cardinals in the world and she was in
awe of the structure in the Church and
one of the hierarchy die and another is
there to take their place, she says.
God operates in structure – look at
His Plan for the 3 stages of the Church.
Excerpt from Response in Christ by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.
e) Relationship with Members of the Church
There is but one true Church of Christ. Yet this one Church has three different states of existence. There is the pilgrim Church, the Church of this world, composed of members who have received the grace of Christ and strive for its development. They have not yet obtained the goal of their efforts, as have the members of the heavenly Church, who enjoy God in eternal happiness. The Church suffering is an intermediate state of existence necessary for those who had not achieved the required purification as members of the pilgrim Church. Although there are these three phases of the Church’s existence, there is a profound union existing between all the members. All these members possess the same basic life of grace in Christ, and this common life establishes the most intimate bonds of love. In our preceding chapter, we discussed the pilgrim Church. Let us now consider the Church suffering and the heavenly Church.
The members of the Church suffering are those who have departed from this life in an incomplete state of Christian development. Their development is incomplete in the sense that grace has not fully taken possession of them, and, as a result, they are yet closed in upon themselves to a greater or lesser degree. They as yet cannot open themselves out in complete love to the Triune God in the beatific vision. They must undergo a further purification, a purification which could have been achieved upon earth with merit. Now the purification must be achieved with no merit attached. The pain of this purification is mixed with the certain expectation of achieving the vision of God. We can hasten the advent of this vision for this people by the offering of prayers and other good works. Scripture itself refers to our action on behalf of those in purgatory in Chapter 12 of the Second Book of Maccabees beginning with verse 38.
The members of the heavenly Church are those in whom the life of grace has taken full possession and has reached its completion in the life of glory. Faith now is unnecessary, as the light of glory gives the human intellect a new strength and capacity for seeing God face-to-face. While the Christian was a wayfarer, he received the imprint of the indwelling Trinity as he shared in God’s own life. Now in heaven that grace-life and possession of God reaches its completion—the absolute completion is not achieved, however, until the resurrection of the body. The divine persons give Themselves to the beatified in a profound union far surpassing that of the indwelling of the Trinity experienced here below.
This life of heaven is still the Christ-life, for just as we possess a share in Trinitarian life here below as mediated by Christ, and exercise this grace-life as structured by Him, so also in heaven is the mediation of Christ present. In the words of Rahner, "One always sees the Father through Jesus. Just as immediately as this, for the directness of the vision of God is not a denial of the mediatorship of Christ as man."14 And not only does the humanity of Christ unite the blessed to God, but also, in some way, to the whole of creation. This is merely a completion of what is begun here below, namely, the union with Christ in His humanity establishing the Christian in a special relationship with God, with other men, and with the whole of creation. We have a glimpse, therefore, of the fullness of life which members of the heavenly Church possess.
The heavenly Church, as St. Thomas says, is the true Church.15 The Church of this earth and the Church of purgatory are, each in its own way, reaching out in loving hope for the heavenly Jerusalem. Vatican II puts it very simply: "The Church, to which we are called in Christ Jesus, and in which we acquire sanctity through the grace of God, will attain her full perfection only in the glory of heaven."16
The members of the heavenly Church can help us in living our life of grace until we too share its fullness with them. Their power of intercession on our behalf is but another ramification of the communal aspect of Christianity. We are meant to help others grow in Christ. We, in turn, are intended by God to receive aid from others—yes, from members of the heavenly Church, as well as from those with whom we dwell here below.
Not only can we be aided by the saints’ intercession, but the example of the canonized saints can also be of great value to us. They have concretely proved that full holiness is possible. Such an inspiration is of real worth when we are tempted to think that Christian sanctity in its higher degrees is impossible of attainment. Moreover, the canonized saints, in their diversity, teach us that there are many authentic versions of Christian holiness. They can be innovators in showing us that there are numerous possibilities in assimilating the mystery of Christ, although the basic assimilation remains the same for all Christians of all times. In the opinion of Rahner this is one of the chief roles the canonized saints exert in the life of the Church.17
NOTES:
14Karl Rahner, Theological Investigations, Vol. III (Baltimore: Helicon, 1967), p. 44.
15 Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, In Ad Ephes., c. 3, Lect. 3.
16Second Vatican Council, Constitution on the Church, No. 48.
17Cf. Karl Rahner, Op. cit., pp. 100-101.
R.
God is the Creator – look at the
universe and creation, species of
animals, fish, plants, the life
cycle.
God made man in His image
and likeness –
Genesis 1: 26-27
God said, ‘Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild animals and all the creatures that creep along the ground.’
God created man in the image of himself,
in the image of God he created him,
male and female he created them.
R.
Man was given all these gifts and the
devil came and tempted Eve in the Garden.
He wanted her to get to Adam – so they
would both sin. Isn't that how the
devil works – one sins and tempts
others to sin, because of pride and
jealousy and envy – they are deadly sins,
they are attractions of our wounded
human nature.
God created an orderly, harmonious
beautiful, good loving world and
Eve wanted to be equal to God –
INDEPENDENCE of Authority –
EVE rebelled against God and Eve
pressed on Adam to do so. They had
all these gifts God gave them, but
they didn't want to obey God –
They wanted INDEPENDENCE –
In this world today there is independence
from God –
If satan wants to attack someone they
pull out the ones over them, because
everybody is under somebody.
Fr. Carter's Response in Christ talks
about Authority.
Excerpt from Response in Christ by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.
ELEVEN
Other Christian Virtues (excerpt)5. Obedience
Obedience disposes the Christian to relate properly to authority. In turn, all authority has been established by God. Concerning civil authority, St. Paul comments: "You must all obey the governing authorities. Since all government comes from God, the civil authorities were appointed by God, and so anyone who resists authority is rebelling against God's decision, and such an act is bound to be punished." (Rm 13:1-2). If God has established authority in civil society, He also, obviously, has established authority within the Church. In the words of Vatican II: "Therefore, the sacred council teaches that bishops by divine institution have succeeded to the place of the apostles, as shepherds of the Church, and that he who hears them, hears Christ, and he who rejects them, rejects Christ and him who sent Christ (Cf. Lk 10-16)."5 This authority of bishops is shared by others in the Church, such as pastors and religious superiors.
In our second chapter we have already treated to some extent authority and obedience within the Church. It is a question here of continuing that discussion.
Authority in the Church is aimed at building up the Body of Christ. It is concerned with developing the Christ-life within the members of the People of God. It is concerned with making the Church a more authentic continuation of the redemptive Incarnation. To do this properly, authority must realize its service role. The People of God do not exist for the sake of authority, but rather authority exists for the People of God. The People of God, in obedience to authority, are aided in their growth in Christ; for authority is meant to help channel the will of God and aid in its implementation. God has indeed chosen to manifest His will partly through Church authority. In this He respects man's nature. Man has a social dimension and therefore is meant to live in community. Life in community, in turn, demands authority.
For too many years, however, authority in the Church has to some extent failed to realize its service function. Happily, a new theology of authority and of person is emerging to correct the situation. Formerly there was too much emphasis given to authority and to external law in the Church to the detriment of other values such as personal dignity, freedom and initiative.
Actually, authority is at the service of the freedom possessed by the members of the People of God.6 Christ has come to perfect our freedom. He has given us the Holy Spirit to lead us to the fullness of freedom through the exercise of our Christ-like. We are meant to become more free the more we open ourselves up to God's self-communication in Christ. The more we choose God in Christ the freer we become, for we were created free in order to choose God and His will in all its various dimensions of our lives.
Authority in the Church must respect the People of God's freedom in Christ. Those exercising authority must realize that the members of Christ grow primarily through the interior workings of the Holy Spirit. This is why there must be some sort of continual dialogue between these possessing authority and those whom they serve. Otherwise, how can the holders of authority know the various ways according to which the Holy Spirit seems to be leading the People of God? Thus unaware, how can authority perform one of its tasks: confirming and helping to direct these workings of the Spirit?
Because authority is meant to assist the workings of the Holy Spirit – the perfecter of freedom – as He leads the People of God, the external law of the Church should become much more general. This is so because of the unique individuality of each member of the Church. The Holy Spirit, it is true, will lead all according to the basic pattern of the mystery of Christ. But He also respects the uniqueness of each person. When Church law becomes too detailed, it tends to hamper the workings of the Holy Spirit in respect to this uniqueness. Happily, the reform of Church law gives every indication of becoming much less detailed.
In describing the nature and purpose of authority in the Church, we have at the same time been discussing its necessity. In God's plan the role of authority in the Church is one which cannot be dispensed with. Consequently, if we do not relate properly through obedience to Church authority we will never achieve the desired maturity in Christ.
Finally, we make this observation. The present-day Church needs to be protected against two different classes of people. First, the Church is harmed by that group who want authority-obedience to be exercised in exactly the same way as in the past. These people are failing to read the signs of the times properly. Secondly, the Church is harmed by that group who practically want to abolish all authority in the Church, or at least see no necessity for their individual conformity. Does this group really accept the Church as instituted by Christ?
At this point we briefly mention the religious state, since its members are called in a special way to the exercise of Christian obedience. In general, we can state that what has been posited concerning authority-obedience in the Church at large also holds true for authority-obedience in religious life. It is a question of intensification.
There are several points we wish to emphasize from our above discussion. First, if religious superiors are truly convinced that their exercise of authority is meant to promote the growth in Christ of their religious, they must realize that their authority cannot in all aspects be exercised as in the past. There must be added attention given to the fact that the religious grows in Christ when he or she is allowed to exercise initiative and responsibility as much as possible. Religious superiors must also realize that God has given each religious certain capacities and desires as regards one's work. These are one indication of God's will for an individual, as long as such factors are balanced by other manifestations of the divine will. Sometimes these manifestations of God's will are contradictory, and a prudent decision has to be made. Superiors must likewise be aware of another very important factor we mentioned above. The Holy Spirit always leads a person to further growth in Christ in a manner which is to some extent always different from His guidance of others. Again, this truth is rooted in the uniqueness of each person and each person's graces.
All this points to the necessity of a certain basic dialogue between superior and subject. How else will the superior fully know of the capacity of the religious for initiative and responsibility? Or how will the superior know of the subject's interests, of how the Holy Spirit seems to be leading this individual?
We have a second point for emphasis. Just as the law of the Church for all her members should become more general, less detailed, and more rooted in the spirit of the gospel, so the renewed rules and constitutions for a religious order or congregation should be likewise conceived. The purpose is the same as pointed out for the Church at large. When rules for religious become too many and too detailed, those tend to thwart the action of the Holy Spirit within individuals.
If religious superiors have an obligation to govern according to the signs of the times, religious subjects have a corresponding duty to obey according to the same signs. The renewal in the Church is calling for a greater maturity on the part of Christians. Religious, then, have to realize they are called to a greater maturity in the practice of their obedience. For instance, they have to be willing to develop their initiative as much as possible, while at the same time having the disposition to bear with the suffering involved if obedience leads away from the particular line of action which initiative had taken.
The mature religious realizes also that as the external rules and structure of his life become less detailed and rigid, his sense of obedience will lead him to assume a greater personal responsibility for growth in Christ. For authority relaxes external structure in order to promote greater individual freedom and responsibility in spiritual growth. One is not therefore being truly obedient if he does not assume this responsibility.
The mature religious also realizes that the contemporary practice of obedience involves a certain tension. On the one hand religious superiors are allowing for increased initiative, freedom and responsibility on the part of subjects. On the other hand, the individual religious must realize that he is to assimilate these new dimensions according to the framework of community. This is not always easy. Increased opportunities for the exercise of freedom, responsibility and initiative can be abused, and the individual can come to prefer his misconceived self-fulfillment to the good of the religious community and to the good of the Church. After all, renewal in the concepts of authority and obedience is aimed at making a more Christ-like Christian, and therefore a more selfless one, one who thinks less and less of himself and his self-fulfillment, and, consequently, one who truly finds his life and fulfillment in a greater service of love rendered in Christ to God and man.
5. Constitution on the Church, No. 20.
6. Cf. J. Sekora, Calling: A Reappraisal of Religious Life (New York: Herder & Herder, 1968), pp. 70-71.
Acts 1: 6-9
Now having met together, they asked him, 'Lord, has the time come for you to restore the kingdom to Israel?' He replied, 'It is not for you to know times or dates that the Father has decided by his own authority, but you will receive the power of the Holy Spirit which will come on you, and then you will be my witnesses not only in Jerusalem but throughout Judaea and Samaria, and indeed to earth's remotest end.'
R.
God created the world, seen and unseen,
out of nothing.
God put the human man at the
apex of creation –
Look at the order in what
God created –
The devil tempted Eve and Eve sinned --
this brought disorder into the world.
Men want to be independent of God
without God.
Genesis Chapter
3Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, 'Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?' The woman answered the snake, 'We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, "You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death." ' Then the snake said to the woman, 'No! You will not die! God knows in fact that the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good from evil.' The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was enticing for the wisdom that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realised that they were naked. So they sewed fig-leaves together to make themselves loin-cloths.
The man and his wife heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. But Yahweh God called to the man. 'Where are you?' he asked. 'I heard the sound of you in the garden,' he replied. 'I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.' 'Who told you that you were naked?' he asked. 'Have you been eating from the tree I forbade you to eat?' The man replied, 'It was the woman you put with me; she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.' Then Yahweh God said to the woman, 'Why did you do that?' The woman replied, 'The snake tempted me and I ate.'
Then Yahweh God said to the snake, 'Because you have done this,
Accursed be you
of all animals wild and tame!
On your belly you will go
and on dust you will feed
as long as you live.
I shall put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
it will bruise your head
and you will strike its heel.'To the woman he said:
I shall give you intense pain
in childbearing,
you will give birth to your children
in pain.
Your yearning will be for your husband,
and he will dominate you.To the man he said, 'Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat,
Accursed be the soil because of you!
Painfully will you get your food from it
as long as you live.
It will yield you brambles and thistles,
as you eat the produce of the land.
By the sweat of your face
will you earn you food,
until you return to the ground,
as you were taken from it.
For dust you are
and to dust you shall return.The man named his wife 'Eve' because she was the mother of all those who live. Yahweh God made tunics of skins for the man and his wife and clothed them. Then Yahweh God said, 'Now that the man has become like one of us in knowing good from evil, he must not be allowed to reach out his hand and pick from the tree of life too, and eat and live for ever!' So Yahweh God expelled him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he had been taken. He banished the man, and in front of the garden of Eden he posted the great winged creatures and the fiery flashing sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.
R. Jesus is the Light of the World –
God created and said
"Let there be Light"
When a person is rooted in the
deadly sins, anger, jealousy,
envy - seeking dominance
for dominance sake, pride, lust,
slothfulness – they feel dark inside –
they don't feel good inside –
the light is dimmed because
Adam and Eve sinned and we
have original sin –
Ephesians 5: 14
Wake up, sleeper
rise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you.
R. God calls and we respond –
God called
"Let there be Light"
There was the response
There was light –
CALL
RESPONSE
God first called us
John 3: 16
For this is how God loved the world:
he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him
may not perish
but may have eternal life.
R.
The Christian life considered as response to
God's love.
Galatians 2: 19-21
In fact, through the Law I am dead to the Law so that I can be alive to God. I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me. The life that I am now living, subject to the limitation of human nature, I am living in faith, faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. I am not setting aside God's grace as of no value; it is merely that if saving justice comes through the Law, Christ died needlessly.
R. Our response to God's love
Matthew 22: 34-40
But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees they got together and, to disconcert him, one of them put a question, 'Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?' Jesus said, 'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets also.'
R. The 3 loves
Love of God
Love of Others
Love of Self
Excerpt from Response to God's Love p. 91
Here, then, we see the profound interaction between the three awarenesses and loves—awareness and love of God, self, and neighbor.
R. We will be judged on how we loved!
God is love –
Our response to God's love who first
loved us.
We have a free will –
The Blue Books tell us of God's love
for us and how we are to love
God and others and ourselves –
Song: God's Love
Song: A Song from Jesus
I Love You
April 13, 1994
Words of Jesus. Read before the Tabernacle.
Jesus: How, child, do I, Jesus, tell you I love you? You hold on to silly things when God is in your midst and is ardently loving you. I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I am writing to each precious child this day. I am on fire for love of you. I remain in the Eucharist to be with you with My ardent love. I did not want to leave My beloved ones at the Last Supper. I love you so, My dear and ardently loved children. I remain with you this day in the Blessed Sacrament, the same Jesus Who died a brutal death on the Cross.
Do you know I am truly present there? Do you know that God waits every day for you in the tabernacle? Do you comprehend even a minute amount of My love? You will never know of how I love you on earth.
I, Jesus, truly the Son of God, came to earth a man and suffered a brutal death for love of you. I love you so much! I remain with you this day. I long for your love. I want you to come and be with Me in front of the tabernacle. I wait, I yearn for you to come and whisper your love to Me. I am a person and I love you this day, with such an ardent on-fire love! No human could ever compare a speck to My love for you.
I wait, little ones, in the tabernacle. I wait for you to come and receive Me in Communion. I want you to want Me so much you cannot wait to come and receive Me. I want to be the love, the center of your life!
I am Jesus. I am the Son of God. I am writing to you this day. I want to possess your very soul and live in you. I have all you need, sweet ones. Oh, you are so blind! I long for your union with Me. I wrote the book of love. I instituted it, yet you go to the world for your love and do not even come to Me! Oh, I love you, little ones. Little ones, beloved of the Father, loved by the Holy Spirit, mothered by My very own mother! What more can I say? The rest is up to you!
I give you your will with such love and I want your love freely given. I am God. What do you think you could ever need that I do not give you? I am the Savior of this world. I am Jesus, the Son of God. I am waiting for you. I am longing for you. I am yearning for you. I am God. I have all you ever will need!
Surrender this life to Me. Pray My Prayer for Union with Me. I want to possess your soul and operate from your very being. I am Jesus. I am the Son of God. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I am Who am. I died and rose on the third day.
Harken to My call, harken to My pleading. Spend your days in love with Me. Nothing matters unless it is rooted in Me and rooted in My love. I am the Son of God. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I love you with the tenderest love. I am waiting this day for just you, My beloved one. Come to Me for I am the tenderest of all hearts. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
- God's Blue Book, Volume 2 April 13, 1994
March 5, 2014 Rosary
Ash Wednesday
Clearwater, Florida
Sing: All I Ask of You
R. This is one of the songs that – one of our handmaids died and we got to have the funeral in China, which was really wonderful. Jesus just told me to play this song and I always associate that with her. And she is the one that started the vestment shop here long ago. And she died 11 years ago. It's just such a gift that God really brings us into this life, and He has us have all these relationships with everybody, and at the same time He is watching us, and he had this plan for us to help in the work of redemption and that is a mighty gift, that God enlists our help in doing this, and that He wants us for all eternity to be in that beatific vision with Him, wrapped in the fullness of life, and in immense love. And none of us want to leave, it's kind of nice down here, and so we have to at a certain time, say good-bye. He brought us into the world, when He decided it was time for us to come, and He is going to take us out, and He intends us to help in the building of the Kingdom. And really that is what Lent is all about. It is about this renewal, it's about this dying to those ways, that are really rupturing relationships in our lives, relationships with others, not loving ourselves as we should. And of course, not loving God when we hurt others.
And we so start this Lenten Season right now with a reminder that we are here, really to be changed. So the Sunday readings, they are different, every cycle, and the one for Sunday is about Genesis and the first reading starts out with the fall, and then we see that Jesus is tempted, after 40 days of fasting, and then the Second Sunday we see that God is calling Abraham to help form His people and be the leader, because man is fallen, and God loves us so much, that He is going to see that we have this great opportunity to still be saved. So He calls Abraham to help form the people and to be the Father of His people.
And then in that Second Sunday of Lent in Cycle A, then we have the Gospel which is the Transfiguration, and so if we really meditate on the Transfiguration in those rosary mysteries, we see that He takes the Apostles up there and He is transfigured before them, and a voice from heaven comes and it says, 'This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, listen to Him.' And we have to see ourselves as the sons of God and that we are to really be changed, more and more, into that image and likeness of God. The reading of Sunday, start's out with the fall and the other readings lead up to then, we have the woman at the well, and then the next Sunday we have the blind man, and then the next Sunday we have the raising of Lazarus from the dead by Jesus.
We also have the call of David, who is anointed by Samuel, and the setting up of Jesus coming to be our Savior. So as we go through Lent, we go through this salvation history of how man sinned, then the resurrection. We know that Jesus died and then he rose to give us this wonderful sharing in His life, which is going to eventually lead to the beatific vision with Him for all eternity, if we do what God has asked us to do, live according to His will, and if we love Him, then we will be with Him for all eternity, and so God does enlist our help.
It's not by helter-skelter that we came, in the year that we came, and that He is going to take us when He decided He is going to take us. But we are here with these talents and God has given to us this job, to be these people in the world to day, that are really the children of light, the children that are the sons of God that are important to this plan because we have a unique mission. And the world tells us, that you can figure things out for yourself and it's good to be independent. What it really is, is good to be submissive to the will of God, because He made us, not by accident, He made us and He has a plan for us, a purpose for our life, and that the more that we are in that line with His will, the more there is unity and harmony in our lives with others, and more that we oppose that will, the more that we have disharmony in our lives.
And God intends us to be this corporate people, that's what it is, the people of God, the people that are working and loving together to build the Kingdom. And so many times, we can be tempted by jealousies, and anger and envies and competitions and all that. And so in the Shepherds of Christ, the mission that God has given to us, is to spread this consecration that men will be in one mind and one heart. And being in one mind and one heart, that means, being in the mind of Jesus. If we are in the mind of Jesus, if we are in the Father's will, then there is not any bumping of heads, there is harmony, there is peace, there is love, there is joy, and then some day then because we lived to love and serve Him, we will have this great gift that God wants to give us in the beatific vision.
And so this song that He wanted me to play at Margaret's funeral, and she is the woman that made that vestment shop out there. It is just such a beautiful song and I can hear Jesus sing this and all the words that I have gotten in all the Blue Book writings, over and over again. I have to stop and really think and listen to what He is saying, because the devil is right there telling us, you know, that you are not as loved as you think you ought to be and it is just nuts. We need to be people tapped into the source of His love, that we are really the people that are going out and giving whatever it is in that witness God wants us to be, to others. The witness that Christ is a light that shines in the darkness, that's a sure thing.
Song: All I Ask of You
Song: All That We Have
R. This is like St. Ignatius Spiritual Exercises. Why do people do things for recognition, for power, for money?
Song: All That We Have
R. Sing it – with a grateful heart.
Song: All That We Have
R. We never really know when somebody is out there and lonesome too, but God intends us to be His eyes and His Heart and His hands in the world.
Song: All That We Have
R. This is not a song that I do a lot, but it's a song that's real pretty. It's called Anthem.
Song: Anthem
R. This is why we are here to grow in that Christ-life, to die to those things that are not like Jesus, to really see ourselves and our lives, putting on Christ, and that means that we have to pray for the grace to love, because love is a theological virtue, and we have to ask God for that grace. And when we are loving, it is because of God's grace. We cooperate with the grace, but it is because God has given us the grace, and we have to thank God for that grace that helps us to be more and more loving, and then say yes to it, because it is a great gift. Because that's why we are here, to love God, to love others as ourselves.
Song: Anthem
R. Let's do it again.
Song: Anthem
R. And who knew more about being a witness, and a light and a model for us, but the Virgin Mary who was conceived without sin, who was chosen by God to be the Mother of God, Mother of Jesus, and Mary said 'yes' to it all, she said 'yes' to all the sufferings, 'yes' to everything that God asked of her. And today Mary is still appearing here in the building, and still saying – spread that consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, that people will be in one mind and one heart with God. That is where our answers is at – unity – not the way the world is, where everybody can do their own thing, and they try to be better than everybody else. But it is in unity, it is about giving our hearts to love and trying to be all that God created us to be, which is dynamic, because He had a purpose and a plan for us, a unique plan, and nobody can contribute the way that we love, to God and to that plan. We all love uniquely, because God is all powerful. What a gift!
So as we think about today – it's Ash Wednesday – we want to think about the message that Mary gave, that goes with this site, and the message was, "I stood beneath the cross of my Son, and my heart was in so much anguish for my little ones that would be lost forever." And she said after she had appeared to me all those times, for 2 1/2 years, she said, "I appear, I appear, I appear and I am ignored". And then Mary came and appeared here for 7 1/2 years, and there is not the people that really realize, that Mary really did appear to give this message, that we are suppose to be in one mind and one heart, and its the mind of God, to put on Christ, to love each other, to follow God's will, not plan out our own things, but to really spend that time with God, to ask Him – what do you want with me. And then to say yes. It might not be what you would like you to do, because He might have a bigger plan than you even think for yourself. We kind of sell ourselves short, because we just don't see ourselves through the eyes of God. Mary just followed His will and let Him be the operator of her life. Thank You God for the Virgin Mary. And thank You for this building and all the apparitions.
Song: At the Cross Her Station Keeping - playing
R. Do you have the Red Rosary Book? Do you know the Red Rosary Book went out the same day that Mary appeared here on the building, and I was told to put that Red Rosary Book out with the rainbow on the front, and they gave me the date of December 17th, that it would be released from the Publisher, and I thought oh, it will be late. Well, on December 17th, this book was released from the Publisher with the messages that were in it from the rosaries when Mary, and Jesus too, had appeared to me. And one of the things that is in this book, that is so beautiful is the Stations, and the Stations were so beautiful when Our Lord gave those to me. I was in front of the Blessed Sacrament and I heard Him say the Stations, and as He said the Stations, I just cried because it was just Him saying it, I could hardly, hardly write down what He was saying.
From the Red Rosary Book, p. 64
Stations of the Cross
February 22, 1995
1. Jesus Is Condemned to Death
Jesus: My dear child, with angry hearts and hatred on their faces, they poked at Me and condemned Me to death. I stood so silent, My hands tied, in perfect peace, because I knew the Father's love. I knew the Father's Will. You too will stand your trials in perfect peace, the more you realize the immense love the Father, Son and Holy Spirit have for you. Pray to the Spirit to transform you more and more into My image and, through this transformation, you will be led ever closer to the Father. Oh, how I love you! end of station
Song: At the Cross Her Station Keeping
R. Could you put the Passion Movie on the screen?
2. They Give Jesus the Cross
Jesus: They gave Me a heavy cross, laden with the sins of the world. They placed it on My shoulder. It was so heavy I felt as if My shoulder would break. I ask you to carry little crosses, to experience little pains. I could not remove this cross from My shoulder. The weight was unbearable. It is through My suffering and death that you receive new life. It is through your sufferings this day that you will grow in your life with Me. Oh, child, I loved you so much that I took up the cross of salvation. I love you. Please realize that I am talking to you here. To My death I loved you. Oh, how I love you! end of station
March 5, 2014 Rosary
R. You know my brother writes the homilies, and one of the things I saw in the homily that he had for Good Friday, and we have it in this book, is that you can really see how the sacrifice and suffering on one person's part, can bring life and blessings to another person. And what he brought up was like with parents, you know that they sacrifice, and a lot of times they suffer for their children, and then their children grow up and they have great blessings. And I thought that was really a beautiful thing that he said there, that this sacrifice and this sufferings that we made for our children really, really did bring down great blessings in their lives. So we can see how our sacrifices too can bring down blessings in other peoples lives.
Song: At the Cross Her Station Keeping
3. Jesus Falls the First Time
Jesus: The cross was so heavy I could hardly walk. I held on to My cross for greatest love of you and in compliance with the Will of My Father. It became so hard to walk! The cross was so heavy! I fell. I fell and the cross fell on Me. They poked at Me, they struck Me, they demanded I get up. The pain from the instruments they used to poke Me and strike Me was so great! I somehow managed to get up.
When you fall under the weight of your cross, come to My Eucharistic Heart. I am no less present in the tabernacle and in the Eucharist than on the day I carried My cross. I wait with the same love that I had for you when I carried this cross and suffered such agony. Oh, how I love you! end of stationSong: At the Cross Her Station Keeping
4. Jesus and Mary Meet
Jesus: I saw the face of My beautiful Mother. She was weak, her face reddened and full of tears. I saw her tender heart, her love, her anguish, her pain. I saw My dear Mother Mary. My Heart was comforted by the sight of her, but torn by her suffering.
Mary: As I looked into the eyes of my beloved Son, I saw His love. His head, bleeding and wounded. His body weak. His clothes covered with blood. I looked into His eyes and I saw His love for you. I call out to you today. I appear today with a face full of anguish and tears. I appear to call you back to the love of my Son. See through my eyes, as I peer into His eyes, the love He has for you this day to give of Himself for you. Oh, He loves you so much, my little children. See through my eyes the love of my Son. Oh, how He loves you! end of stationSong: At the Cross Her Station Keeping
5. Simon of Cyrene Is Forced to Help Jesus Carry His Cross
Jesus: The cross was so heavy I could not move. My persecutors became angry and forced a man to help Me. The cross was so heavy the two of us could barely move it. How is your cross today? Does it seem so heavy you cannot go on? I am forever watching you. When you are suffering the greatest, I am very close to you. It is in immense suffering that you realize My great love for you. Pray for grace to do always the Father's Will. Pray for grace to grow in your knowledge and love of Me. end of station
Song: At the Cross Her Station Keeping
6. Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus
Jesus: My face was covered with blood. From the crowd Veronica came forward with a cloth to wipe My face. On the cloth I gave to you an imprint of My bloodied face. This, My children, remains with you this day as a sign of My immense love for you. But more than any cloth, look beyond the visible consecrated host. I, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, remain with you, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, in the Eucharist this day, waiting and longing to be with you. Oh, how I love you! end of station
Song: At the Cross Her Station Keeping
7. Jesus Falls the Second Time
Jesus: Oh, dear ones, the road became harder and harder to walk. The cross was becoming heavier, My body weaker and weaker. My shoulders and arms hurt so much! My head throbbed as I walked. The blood came from My body, from My head to My feet. I was covered with open wounds. I could not go any farther. I stumbled and fell. Again they poked at Me, only harder, and with such hatred they kicked Me. Such vileness in the hearts of men! My greatest agony was not the agonies of My body, but the agonies of My heart for the love I have for all My precious souls. I loved them so dearly. I loved those who persecuted Me. Oh, how I love you! end of station
Song: At the Cross Her Station Keeping
R. You sing and I'll try to play.
8. Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem
Jesus: The women came to Me with their children, their tender hearts crying and wanting to comfort Me. I saw their love, their care. I saw the coldness of men's hearts for all time, the hatred, the anger, the sins, all the souls that, despite all of My sufferings and death, would be condemned to eternal damnation. I told the women to weep not for Me, but for themselves and their children. My greatest agonies were the agonies of My Most Sacred Heart. Oh, how I love you! end of station
Song: At the Cross Her Station Keeping
9. Jesus Falls the Third Time
Jesus: I fell hard the third time. I was so weakened I could not go on. My body collapsed under the cross from such exhaustion! My child, My child, My greatest agonies were not the wounds to the body. They were the wounds I experienced to My heart. Do you know a little more now how I love you? It is in meditating on My Passion and death that you will realize My immense love for you. When you fall, when you struggle, I give you the grace to get up. I never give you more than you can handle. Your strength will come from Me. Come to My Eucharistic Heart. I am waiting for you this day. Oh, how I love you! end of station
Song: At the Cross Her Station Keeping
10. Jesus Is Stripped of His Garments
Jesus: They took Me to the hill to crucify Me. They angrily stripped Me of My garments. They took off My clothes to whip Me. They had covered My bloody wounds with a dirty purple robe. Now, total surrender-they took off My clothes. I showed you the way to surrender, always complying with the Will of the Father. It is in living in His Will that you will have peace and joy, and life eternal some day. Oh, how I love you! end of station
Song: At the Cross Her Station Keeping
end of station11. They Nail Him to the Cross
R. See Mary as she holds the little Baby Jesus. See her as she washes His tender hands and feet. (R. Do you have the Song from Jesus Book?) See her now as she watches as they pound into those same hands and feet the gigantic nails that fix Jesus to the cross.
Mary: Oh, my dear ones, my heart was torn in my chest as they nailed His hands and feet to the cross. I ask you this day to walk the Passion with me and see through my eyes the love He has for you. He truly was nailed to the cross.
Jesus: They pounded the nails into My first hand, then they stretched My body and nailed My other hand. The blood poured from these wounds that went totally through My hands. My pain was so immense, but then they nailed My feet! You do not know what pain I suffered, My child. My children, My children, for each one of you I suffered this pain. Oh, how I loved you!
R. And there is a song in here, it's called See Through the Eyes of Mary
Song: See Through the Eyes of Mary
R. I want to pray for all of us in body, mind and soul and I want to pray for Fr. Ken, and I want to pray for Dan and pray for Betty and Sophie and Rosie, and pray for Gary and Mary Ellen and my brother, Jim, and pray for all the people that are sick that we promised we would pray for and people that have asked us to pray for them. And we want to pray for everybody on my list and Jerry's list and your list too, and all the other intentions that we have, we are praying for tonight, but especially for this healing that we all need in body, mind and soul. Amen.
So now we just did the 11th Station, so now
we are on the big one, where Jesus died on the Cross.
12. Jesus Dies on the Cross
(Silence.)
R. He hung for three agonizing hours on the cross against the
darkened sky. His greatest agonies were not the agonies of His body, but
those of His Heart for the great love He has for each and every soul.
Jesus: I gave Myself to you, My dear ones. I gave My all. I
hung with My arms spread in total surrender. My head was punctured; My
hands and feet were nailed to the cross. I gave Myself to you. I give
Myself to you this day in the Eucharist. I give Myself to you. I, God,
give you Myself! What more do you want?
Song: Oh, burning Heart, oh, Love divine, etc.
R. They pierced His Heart with a lance and what flowed forth
was blood and water, the sacramental life of the Church, water for Baptism
and blood for the Eucharist. His life, death and resurrection live on in
the Church this day.
end of station
Song: A Song from Jesus
13. Jesus Is Taken Down from the Cross and Placed in the Arms of His Mother
R. His totally lifeless body was placed in the arms of His most loving Mother. As she had held the little baby body in her arms, she now received His bloodied, bruised body in her arms. This is how He obeyed the Father's Will. Jesus gave His life for us. The Father gave His only Son because He loves us so much. Mary, His Mother, our Mother and the Mother of the Church, is forever by His side. See Jesus in the arms of His loving Mother under the cross. This is love.
Mary: I held His lifeless body in my arms. See through my eyes the love He has for you this day. He gives Himself to you today in the Eucharist. He loves you so much! end of stationSong: Little Baby Hands and Feet
14. Jesus Is Locked in the TombR. His enemies rolled the stone up to the tomb and were pleased to have buried Jesus. Mary, outside the tomb, wept bitterly. The cold reality that He was dead! But death has no power over Jesus for on the third day He rose, triumphant, from the tomb! We are partakers in His divine life. Death has no power over Jesus. He is with us this day. He comes to bring us life to the full. He loves us so much! end of station
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